“How I fell out of love with academia.”
Science is badly broken, as is university research (of course, lots of things about universities are badly broken).
Category Archives: Business
Boeing
An insider look at what went wrong. It’s not pretty.
IFT-3
Not much new to those who have been following it, but Irene Klotz has a nice description of the flight.
Administrative Law
Is it unlawful?
It certainly should be. Hopefully SCOTUS will start to roll it back by reversing Chevron.
China And The Moon
Will they beat us back?
They certainly won’t have a problem beating NASA back, given its political constraints. I do think that a private effort could beat them.
That 1938 Feeling
I’ve been having it, too.
Any Decade Now
With anniversaries coming up, Doug Messier reports on Virgin Galactic’s “progress.”
I weep when I think what could have been done with those hundreds of millions if they hadn’t been wasted on such a misbegotten concept.
The Samizdat Prize
An interview with the winners: Miranda Devine, Matt Taibbi, and Jay Battacharya. Well deserved.
Twilight Of The Wonks
A long, but interesting history.
Baltimore
It’s a lot more than just a broken bridge.